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1
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What is the study of the matter and movement of God’s physical creation?

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Science

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What is the substance of physical world anything that occupies space or has substance?

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Matter

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3
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What is the study of soil?

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Pedology

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What type of method is an organized way for scientist to gather in pursue scientific knowledge?

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Scientific method

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What are the three main components of the scientific method?

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Hypothesizing ,observation ,experimentation

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What is a way of explaining an object or event by using a set of facts?

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Theory

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If a theory has never been proven, false scientist, will call it what?

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Law

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What would prove the hypothesis false, this property of hypothesis is called what?

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Falsifiability

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What kind of variable is the factor that you can change to test your hypothesis ?

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Independent variable

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What type of variable is a factor that is observed to determine the results of the experiment?

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Dependent variable

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What kind of variable is the same in all groups?

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Controlled variable

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What kind of group is the group on which a test is performed?

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Experimental group

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What group in which the independent variable is absent? The group is not tested, but is used for a standard for comparison ?

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Control group

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14
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What are any characteristics required to solve the problem?

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Constraints

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What is the minimum characteristics that a design must have to function at all?

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Criteria

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16
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What is the study of reasoning that is essential for any scientist called?

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Logic

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17
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What is a conclusion based on reasoning from evidence?

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Inference

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What kind of reasoning is reasoning from evidence to a more specific conclusion it is used to go by known facts. Discover a new fact that is their logical consequence?

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Deductive reasoning

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In deductive reasoning, a statement of fact is called?

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Proposition

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What kind of proposition is an if/then preposition?

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Hypothetical proposition

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What kind of reasoning is reasoning from specific evidence to a more general conclusion, the ultimate purpose of blank reasoning is to determine cause and effect?

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Inductive reasoning

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What is it called when an experiment repeat multiple times, keeping all factors of similar as possible ?

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Repeatability

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What means the others will reach the same conclusion by performing your experiment themselves under different conditions performing other experiments that test the same hypothesis?

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Reproducibility

24
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What is anything that provides a partial representation of something else?

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Model

25
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What kind of material is primarily derived from living organisms?

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Organic material

26
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What type of material is primary derive from nonliving matter?

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Mineral material

27
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What measures the pull of gravity on an object?

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Weight

28
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What measures how tightly packed matter is?

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Density

29
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What is the amount of space that matter takes up?

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Volume

30
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What measures the amount of matter in an object?

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Mass

31
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Humus is primarily a substance composed of what kind of particles?

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Decomposition

32
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What is it called when you reuse old materials?

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Recycling

33
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What are scientist called when they study soil?

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Pedologist

34
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What is the range of sand sleet clay in humans mixtures called?

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Loam

35
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What is a chart that provides standard names in descriptions of soil colors?

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Munsell chart

36
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What are the three most important mineral nutrients for plants primary plant food elements?

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Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium

37
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What is a group of chemicals containing the element phosphorus bonds to oxygen and other elements?

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Phosphates

38
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What stimulates rapid growth of leaves, and stems and plants, a rich green color?

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Nitrogen

39
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what cycle helps nitrogen move from the air to the soil to be used by plants and then returned to the atmosphere to be used again?

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nitrogen cycle

40
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what is substance containing atoms of two or more elements bonded together?

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compound

41
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what is the element that is essential for cell division in growth and promotes plant Maturation?

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Phosphorus

42
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What is the use of science to solve practical problems?

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Technology

43
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In the engineering process, what are the minimum characteristic that I design must how to function at all?

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Criteria

44
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What are any characteristics required to solve the problem?

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Constraints

45
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What are the six steps in engineering design process?

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One state a problem to be solved, to determine the criteria and constraints of the problem, three research and develop possible solutions to the problem, choose a design and make a detailed plan, five and test a prototype, six analyze the prototype and improve the design.

46
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What is a model of a design or some part of a design that is used for testing?

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Prototype

47
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What is the primary function to contribute to the general health of the plant and improve disease resistance?

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Potassium

48
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What kind of bacteria can ammonia be converted to nitrate buy another kind of bacteria called ?

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Nitrifying bacteria

49
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What are at the root of plants that use oxygen from the air found in the blank and spaces of soil?

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Pore spaces

50
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What does impermeable mean?

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Nonporous

51
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Any collected water bellow The Soil surface is called what?

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Groundwater

52
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What is the depth that depends on two factors, the size and number of pores in the rocks and soil and the amount of recent rainfall?

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Water table

53
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What is nursing substances for plants?

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Nutrients

54
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What is a substance composed of only one type of atom?

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Element

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